Jill Dehnert

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In this remarkably compelling memoir, Lynsey Addario chronicles over 10 years of experience as a war photojournalist. The Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur genius fellow has photographed, it seems, every major conflict since 2000 and tells the story of a dangerous, intense, and unlikely profession. Yet, perhaps the most compelling part of the book comes down to the fact of Addarios gender.

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Today nearly 50 million Americans live below the poverty line. It is a statistic that is, perhaps, too large to mean mucha statistic that doesnt get as many headlines as, for example, police brutality against unarmed black men, but one that does just as much violence.

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In todays world, which Michael Hofmann describes as blogal and instant and on demand, where it seems we are all trying to consume as much content as quickly as possible, Where Have You Been? feels almost novel. These 30 essayswhich focus mainly on 20th-century poets, but also visual art, film, prose writers, and some thoughts on translationcan in no way be read quickly or easily.

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In Mohsin Hamids new collection of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations, the author calls for a human population that is both aware and more tolerant of the complexities, intricacies, and pluralities of the human experience in an increasingly globalized world.

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A colleague of mine once described Joan Didion’s work as “pretty straightforward.” But, as Tracy Daugherty shows in The Last Love Song, his encyclopedic biography of the prolific, much-studied novelist and journalist, Didion’s work is anything but “straightforward.”

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Within the first pages of Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine establishes, through personal anecdote told in the second person, the themes that will be explored in the book: race, privilege, public versus private persona, memory and most ubiquitously, language, or, more specifically, the power of language both to construct and deconstruct personhood.